Showcasing World Heritage Sites protected under a 1972 UNESCO treaty, this sumptuously illustrated book tours the caves at Lascaux, Hadrian's Wall, the villas of Pompeii, the Acropolis, Carthage, the necropolis at Thebes, the ruins of Tyre, Persepolis, Machu Picchu, and the tomb of China's first Qin emperor, among many others. Each site is discussed in a chapter of its own, and hundreds of color photographs appear throughout.